** Reply to note from G K Smith <[log in to unmask]> Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:19:43 -0000
Gordon Smith of Kildwick Smith (Consulting Engineers) wrote:
> Gordon Hunt wrote that solicitors had advised the Royal Scottish Academy of
> Music and Drama that their Internet/email policy should include:
>
> > "employees and students should be aware that there is no
> > legitimate expectation of privacy in their use of the telephone
> > system or the internet and email systems at work."
>
> Good for them, I say!
>
> Organisations invest considerable sums of money in the provision of
> computer-based equipment and services for business-related communication and
> information retrieval purposes and I have never understood why employees
> should be allowed even limited access to such systems for any kind of
> personal use, especially where taxpayers money is involved.
Maybe because it increases productivity ?
But you don't begrudge badly phrased advice also paid for by taxpayer's
money ... gohhhh, double standards.
I guess in a technocratic view of the world, Human Rights do not exist for
those paid for by taxpayers money let alone those who are not even
taxpayers themselves (ie. students).
Friday already, time passes so quickly ;-)
Charles
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Charles Christacopoulos, Management Information Officer,
Planning & Information, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN,
Scotland, United Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)1382-344891. Fax: 44(0)1382-201604.
http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/
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